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So, in the local elections at least, the bloke in the pub done well! Nigel Farage, UKIP’s jocular leader, has managed to coral his anti-EU party into a new British political landscape, a four-party system.

I have a simple question. Who is Nigel Farage?

We know Farage is immersed in the Rothschild-owned state within a state, the City of London, that he is a Freemason, that he has been awarded the Freedom to the City of London. Another pawn, his ...

A pal asked me about economist Peter Schiff’s recent interview where he said the global financial crisis had barely begun. Hey, I hope I’m wrong …

We’ve had and continue to experience a depression in most territories, off the back of the partial collapse from 2008. They’ve held the global financial system together with the equivalent of sticky tape – by printing money, what they disingenuously call “quantitative easing” – but that can’t go on forever because there’s been huge ...

To me it resembles, increasingly, Main Street, the modern High Street with all those duopolising franchise brands giving us an illusion of choice whilst running the indies, and real choice, out of business.

… And that’s before we figure in the ultimate cull, the death of net neutrality (the level playing field that has been a one-speed web that’s free to use): the elitist plan for a two tier web will affect ...

We’re being manipulated. Nothing new, but these days there’s no excuse not to know, to understand, to fight.

The human race is potentially very healthy, our rock and fellow animals in turn, yet our opportunity is being systematically quashed by fascism (whether socialist-leaning or whatever the tag is today), with loaded strategies like ‘obsolescence’ making us poor for the benefit of a few, with red herrings like ‘political correctness’ splitting us apart, just as they want.

We were here in 2008, no? I mean, we didn’t know it then, not like we know it now, but we were on the verge of crisis and, having never actually left that crisis, somehow again now we’re on the verge of, er, crisis, or would that be Crisis, CRISIS or just Bloody Great Big Fucking CRISIS. Chris-Christie-style-Crisis? (Maybe no crisis there.)

So now my ‘publisher’ is selling my book, name and experience and, near as damn it, a year’s work … yet is PAYING ME ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in royalties

… and despite Douglas Paterson, their ‘Publisher (Open Source)’, having admitted that their pre-launch editorial and post-launch marketing “made mistakes at every conceivable turn” (and also despite Packt’s Technical Ed having said I was one of the best writers he’d ever worked with).

I build servers as part of my biz and have been considering a range of hyper-secure servers, only affordable for once!

For example, non-loggingVPNs and disk-encrypted mail servers are what we need. In the wake of the NSA scandal, maybe you’ve read something about this (although anyone who ever got a targeted ad from the spyfest that is Gmail should already know about this. ...

WordPress people know a lot about WordPress updates, but all to often they need to know a lot more, to avoid a broken site.

For one thing, WordPress bloggers, with good intention, tend to tell us to always update asap, upon a core update being available. That can be bad advice leading to broken sites, as we casually hack ourselves, effectively, due to incompatibilities from unkempt plugins, old themes and the like.

Shopping for an SSL certificate, I see cert keys must now be 2048 characters, not just the previous 1028.

… Such is the spying frenzy from our dear leaders, good job.

My clearly not-at-all-political point is this: isn’t it time that we recognised that, to protect our biz and identities, we should be using mission critical passwords of, what, at least 128 characters? Or maybe just 64 if you change them each ...

An open letter to Louay Fatoohi (Founder) and Douglas Paterson (Publisher, OpenSource) at Packt Publishing.

Dear Louay and Douglas,

Having not heard from Louay regarding the negotiations I had with Douglas, in over eight months, I have launched the agreed website, wpCop.com. I am happy to provide Packt with whatever site revenue, Louay, that you can prove had been negotiated between he ...

Guvnr, wpCop & vpsBible

With user-friendly tutorials and commentary, Guvnr is Olly Connelly’s blog and doubles as the news vehicle for his sites wpCop, which secures WordPress, and vpsBible, which helps Linux noobs to set up web servers.